Hi Dave, I was CS faculty for a number of years, and then moved into civic tech.
If you can give enough lead time, perhaps I could get a colleague at 18F to join for a Q&A/discussion with your class. 18F is a federal civic tech unit embedded within the GSA. https://18f.gsa.gov/ I know I could chat with students (we all need lead time to get permission to speak about our work, even though it is open/public), but we can also find more interesting people. :) To give a sense for the breadth of things I have found myself doing as an engineer over the past year: * Helping libraries understand how people use their services. ( https://github.com/18f/imls-pi-stack) * Responding to and supporting workforce (federal, contractor) policy ( https://github.com/18f/vaccine-attestation) * Develop courses to support learning for people responsible for the oversight of billions of dollars of health IT spending ( https://cmsgov.github.io/MES-StateOfficerMD/) (Wow. That last sentence would not pass the plain language test.) These speak pretty broadly to the range of experiences you could have at the intersection of civic tech and computing. (There's other pointers/people who live a bit closer to the policy end, but ultimately, we still live in a world where technologists are rarely in the room when the policy happens. That's kinda sad. Your students could fix that for us someday!) Cheers, Matt On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 2:22 PM Dave Lillethun <david.lillet...@tufts.edu> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was hoping I could pick your brains for some ideas.... I will have a > *single* class period to teach a small class (about 20) of *non-majors* > about open source. For context, the course is about technology and > public policy, and the students do not all have a strong technology > backgrounds (many of them have backgrounds in social sciences and other > fields related to public policy), although they have all taken at least > a single introductory programming course before this one. > > Beyond the obvious "what is open source?", etc. What other sorts of > things do you think would be valuable for these non-majors working at > the intersection of tech and public policy to know about open source? > > Thanks! > > > > - Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ >
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